About This Artwork

Antonio Carracci
Italian, 1583-1618

The Virgin, the Holy Women, and Saints John, James and Joseph of Arimathea, with Christ on the Way to Calvary, n.d.

Pen and brown ink, with brush and blue wash, heightened with lead white (discolored), on blue laid paper
323 x 254 mm
Restricted gift of Mrs. Leigh B. Block, 1977.293

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

London, Lawrence Gallery, "One Hundred Original Drawings by Lodovico, Agostino, & Annibale Carracci, Collected by Sir Thomas Lawrence," 1836, cat. 71, as by Annibale Carracci.

London, P.&D. Colnaghi & Co., "A loan exhibition of drawings by the Carracci and other masters: from the collection of the Earl of Ellesmere," (London, 1955).

Bologna, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, "Mostra dei Carracci," 1956, cat. 251.

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 58, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art.

Leicester, The Museums and Art Gallery, "The Ellesmere Collection of Old Master Drawings," 1954, cat. no. 104

Publication History

Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House (London, 1898), no. 112, as Annibale Carracci.

Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), no. 4B4.

Carel Van Tuyll Van Serooskerken, "Two Preparatory Drawings by Antonio Carracci," Master Drawings, 31:4 (Winter 1993) p. 431

Michael Jaffé, The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings, Bolognese and Emilian Schools (London, 1994), p.104

Emilio Negro and Massimo Pirondini, La Scuola dei Carracci I Seguaci di Annibale e Agostino (Modena, 1995), p.148

Ownership History

Narcisse Revil (died 1844), Paris [London 1972]. Sir Thomas Lawrence (died 1830), London [London 1972]; sold by Samuel Woodburn on behalf of Thomas Lawrence's estate to Lord Francis Egerton (died 1857), 1st Earl of Ellesmere, London, 1837 [Lugt Suppl. 2710b; London 1955]; sold, Sotheby's, London, July 11, 1972, The Ellesmere Collection, lot 181, to P. Hardy [annotated sales catalogue]. Sold by the Paul Drey Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1977.